MH370: a major advance and multiple questions – Le Figaro

COMPUTER GRAPHICS – New air and sea ways off the island of Reunion will be deployed as early as Friday, jointly announced several ministries in Paris

What will it dissipate Blurring the mysterious disappearance of MH370? The latest information and announcements represent the first evidence that the aircraft crashed into the Indian Ocean, raising hopes of solving one of the greatest enigmas of aviation.

● New resources deployed by France

An aircraft fly over the area from “tomorrow” (Friday), said Thursday in a joint statement the French Ministers of Defense of addition -Sea and traffic maps, adding that the “foot patrols, research helicopter mission and Water Brigade” will also be conducted to detect the possible presence of new debris.

● The difficult authentication of the wing piece

According to a source close to the investigation, the flaperon would be very difficult to authenticate because the number series is not written directly thereon, but on a fixed metal part which has not been found. The paint used by Malaysian Airlines, however, could be an answer.

• Malaysia evokes the discovery of new debris

The Malaysian government announced Thursday that new aircraft debris were found in Reunion.

These new debris are a porthole and an aluminum plate, said Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai, while specifying that nothing confirmed for now they belonged to plane disappeared on March 8 last year with 239 people on board.

In Paris, a judicial source said the prosecution was informed of the Malaysian declarations, but he was not able confirm for now.

• For France, very strong presumptions

The first analyzes carried out Wednesday on the wing fragment found the Reunion show that “there are very strong indications that the well belongs Flaperon flight MH370″ of Malaysia Airlines, said Wednesday evening Serge Mackowiak, Deputy Prosecutor of the Republic of Paris.

The play “really comes from a Boeing 777, due to its technical characteristics” and “technical documentation” mentioned by the representatives of the airline allowed for “a rapprochement between the part reviewed by the expert and the flaperon Boeing 777 flight MH 370 in relation to their common technical features, “said the prosecutor. “These are very strong suspicions confirmed by additional analyzes that will begin Thursday morning,” said the prosecutor’s representative.

The analysis of the play was to continue in the coming days.

• In Malaysia, no doubt

A few hours were enough analysis to experts gathered in a military laboratory near Toulouse to confirm that this wing fragment carted by sea drifted over thousands of kilometers from the place of the Indian Ocean where the plane crashed, said Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, more categorical.

“Today, 515 days after the disappearance of the aircraft, it is with a heavy heart that I must announce that an international team of experts concluded that the debris found on the Reunion Island is actually from (Boeing) flight MH370, “he blurted. “We now have physical proof that, as I announced on March 24 last year, the MH370 flight ended tragically in the southern Indian Ocean,” said the head of government.

• For Australia, searches take place in the right place

The Australian authorities, who manage international operations to retrieve the aircraft were declared again persuaded to look in the right place. The discovery of the wing fragment “seems to show that the aircraft crashed more or less where we thought he had fallen, and it shows for the first time that we are perhaps a little closer to solving this baffling mystery, “said Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott.

• Anger Chinese families

Most of the passengers the flight to Beijing were Chinese and many of their families still refuse to believe that their loved ones died. “I do not believe these latest information about the plane, they are lying to us since the beginning,” commented the mother of a passenger. “I know my daughter is somewhere but they will not tell us the truth,” he continued, waving Chinese flags and communist.

The grandmother of a victim also accused the government of lying. “Everyone is lying to us,” she said, before collapsing to the ground, crying. “I would do anything to see him again,” added the woman of 63 years. “Just tell me what I should do, I’ll do it.” “How can we say that the plane crashed on the basis of a single debris? It could be from another plane, “said the father of another victim.

In a statement written by hand and sent via social networks on behalf of” all the relatives of passengers the MH370, “many Chinese victims families have” demanded “a representative” high level “of the Malaysian government meeting in Beijing to their” provide explanations “.

Most of the passengers on the flight to Beijing were Chinese and many of their families still refuse to believe that their loved ones are dead Photo credits:. GREG BAKER / AFP

• “too early” to say what happened

Gerry Soejatman, an expert working in Jakarta, the identification of this aircraft debris represents real progress. “People want all the answers but let’s be realistic. We should be happy to have finally found something. Now we know approximately where the plane is probably fell, “he has observed. The Chief Commissioner of the Australian Bureau of Transportation Safety (ATSB), Martin Dolan, however, observed that it was “too early” to say what had happened, adding that a “comprehensive review (of flaperon) was needed to see what we can learn. “